Academy Award For Best Animated Short Film

The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the Academy Awards annually since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931â€"32, to the present.

This category was known as "Short Subjects, Cartoons" from 1932 until 1970, and as "Short Subjects, Animated Films" from 1971 to 1973. The present title began with the 1974 awards. In the listings below, the title shown in boldface was the winner of the award, followed by the other nominees for that year. This category is notable for giving Walt Disney 12 of his 22 Academy Awards, including a posthumous 1968 award, and also 10 of the first 11 awards awarded in the category. Only American films were nominated for the award until 1952 with NFB's The Romance of Transportation in Canada.

MGM's Tom and Jerry are the category's most lauded animated series, winning seven Oscars and being nominated for a total of 13. Among foreign studios, the National Film Board of Canada has the most wins in this category, with six Oscars. The biggest showing from Britain in this category is Nick Park, with three wins (for Creature Comforts and two for the Wallace and Gromit series.)

Awards were presented to the shorts' producers during the first five decades of the award's existence. Current Academy rules call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film. In the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded". The Academy defines short as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits".

Winners and nominees

Changing Batteries Oscar winning animated short film -

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Notes

Trailer BEAR STORY / HISTORIA DE UN OSO on Vimeo. Source : vimeo.com

Superlatives

Borrowed Time Nominated for 89th Academy Awards, Best Animated .... Source : www.davidmlally.com

For this Academy Award category, the following superlatives emerge:

Most awards: Walt Disney â€" 15 awards (resulting from 49 nominations)
Most nominations: Walt Disney â€" 49 nominations (resulting in 15 awards)

Multiple nominations and awards

Bear Story from Chile - The Inspiration Room. Source : theinspirationroom.com

The following is a list of animation studios or animators that earned multiple nominations and awards in this category.

Submissions

SOAR: An Animated Short | English class, Writing prompts and Prompts. Source : www.pinterest.co.uk

Animation historian Jerry Beck recently posted on Cartoon Research lists of animated shorts from various studios considered for nomination beginning with 1948.

Missing are 1949, 1950 and 1976.

1948â€"1959

Hep Cat Symphony (Famous Studios)
Wags to Riches (MGM)
One Cab's Family (MGM)
Gift Wrapped (Warner Bros)
Ballot Box Bunny (Warner Bros)
Magic Canvas (Halas & Batchelor)
Duck Amuck (Warner Bros)
A Mouse Divided (Warner Bros)
The Little House (Disney)
Trick or Treat (Disney)
Boo Moon (Famous Studios)
Grand Canyonscope (Disney)
Fright to the Finish (Famous Studios)
Pizzicato Pussycat (Warner Bros)
Bewitched Bunny (Warner Bros)
A Cowboy Needs a Horse (Disney)
Down Beat Bear (MGM)
Pedro and Lorenzo (Famous Studios)
Hooked Bear (Disney)
Three Little Bops (WB)
Hill Billing and Cooing (Famous Studios)
How to Have An Accident at Home (Disney)
A Short Vision (Peter Foldes)
What's Opera, Doc? (WB)
The Adventures of * (John Hubley and Faith Hubley)
Flebus (Terrytoons)
The Little Island (Richard Williams)
Robin Hoodwinked (MGM)
The Mouse that Jack Built (WB)
Finnegan's Flea (Famous Studios)
TV Fuddlehead (Famous Studios)